PAGE 4 JUNE 16, 1978
Editorial
E COOSH EEWA:
The Chinns: Time For A Change
THE REV. CHINN FAMILY:
CAL, JASON, ROBIN, STEPHEN AND NANCY
TOE NESS
There was this old lady who entered the rest home and upon
her arrival she asked another lady at the home what they did for
recreation there. The other day’s reply was, “We use the recreation
room, go on picnics, take tours of the city, and have social functions
every so often.”
The new lady asks, “What are the men doing around this time
of the day?” “They are probably in the recreation room playing
checkers.” The new lady thought she would stir up some excitment
and streak through the recreation room while all the men were there.
She takes off all her clothes, goes through the recreation room,
passing these two guys playing checkers. After she had passed one of
the guys said, “Wasn’t that the new lady that just went by?” “Yeah,”
replied the other, “and you know something, whatever she was
wearing really needed ironing.” YIKES
SS SS SS
There were these two ladies discussing m an’s best friend. The
first lady said to the other, “I wonder why they consider the dog
m an’s best friend?” The second lady said, “Perhaps it’s for the
simple reason that dogs can’t talk.” YIKES
SS SS SS
David and Elm er were on their way home from work one
evening. David said, “You know that I never really appreciated my
child’s school teacher until now, since the summer vacation is here.”
YIKES
SS SS SS
There was this guy that just returned from his two-week
summer vacation. He said, “This year my vacation was so dull that
all the fun parts were just getting there.” YIKES
SS SS SS
QUIZ
(1) True or False: Did the man
who invented the vacuum m a
chine invent the milking m a
chine?
(2) True or False: Is the Warden
of a New York Prison a Grand
ma?
(3) Who suffers pain more -
Blondes or Brunettes?
(4) In the U.S. there
are
218,218,000 of a group, what are
they?
(5) The soft pallet of a humans
body is found in the upper half
or the lower half?
(Answers on Page 12)-
Change is not easy when it
isn’t chosen.
Thaf is why it was difficult
for Warm Springs to say good
bye to Presbyterian minister
Calvin Chinn and his family,
who left this week for a new life
in San Anselmo, California.
The Chinns have chosen to
change directions and we who
became so accustomed to their
friendship must adapt to their
decision and the hole it leaves in
our community. As with any loss
it is painful for a time, but we
find ways to cope and even
grow.
After five and a half years in
the Warm Springs community it
was time for the Chinns to move
on. It was time for Cal to return
to academia. It was time for
Nancy to surround herself with
fellow painters. It was time for
the kids — Robin, Stephen and
Jason — to find new challenges
in another school.
A parish minister for the
twelve years since he left the
San Francisco Theological Semi
nary, Cal, 38, felt the need to
step back and reflect on what he
has done. He is returning to his
alma m ater to take on instruc
tional responsibilities in the De
partment of Ministries as well
as pastoral work for the semi
nary community. He expects his
return to an academic environ
ment to be an experience of
“enrichm ent,, renewal, growth
and stimulation” — the shot in
the arm one needs when he
begins to feel “used up.”
Cal is also going home.
Raised in San
Francisco’s
Chinatown, h e je ft behind most
of his family when he ventured
north and it is time to rejoin
loved ones. Cal looks forward to
a family reunion this summer in
honor of his mother’s birthday.
For Nancy , „ San Anselmo
may mean growth as a painter,
an identity that has developed
dramatically during her years in
Warm Springs. She will have a
studio —' “-a focus place” ‘ in
their 18-room house, and antici
pates meeting other like-minded
people as well as taking ad
vantage of the cultural and edu
cational opportunities of
an
urban environment.
I ’m excited
about what
might be there for each of us
and the growth that’s going to
bring, ” rem arked Nancy.
C a la n d Nancy’s lively and
sharp grade school age kids are
already enrolled in such summer
classes as gymnastics, needle
work and science. Dubious about
leaving friends, Robin, Stephen
and Jason seem nevertheless to
be philosophical about the move.
Their concerns have been that
all their precious belongings get
packed securely and the less
precious get sold at one of the
family garage sales for a good
price. They will have a huge new
house to explore and fill and
Robin already has her eye on a
tiny windowed room for “sitting
and thinking.”
As settled as the Chinns
appear to have been in Warm
Springs, coming to the reserva
tion was another kind of change.
Interior’s Assistant Secre
tary for Indian Affairs Forrest
J. Gerard announced June 1 the
appointment of Jam es L. San
saver as Special Assistant in the
area of trust services.
Sansaver, a member of the
Assiniboine-Sioux Tribes of the
Ft. Peck Reservation, will work
on the Assistant Secretary’s
immediate staff in m atters in
volving natural resource pro
grams and the strengthening of
tribal governments.
An attorney from Wolf Point,
Montana, Sansaver was admit
ted to the Montana Bar in 1961,
practiced général law in his
hometown from 1961 to 1969, and
served as Montana County At
torney for two term s from 1961
to 1962.
Sansaver served in the BIA
Billings Area Office as Chief,
Division of Rights Protection,
1974 to 1976, and Chief, Division
of Resource Development, 1976
to present. He has also served in
the BIA as a w ater rights liaison
officer and tribal relations spe
cialists and attorney in the
Office of the Commissioner,
Washington, D.C.
Gerard said that Sansaver *s
experience and education would
provide “expertise
urgently
needed in dealing with the multi
faceted situations which involve
the Indian tribes’ natural re-.
sources, the Nation’s energy
needs and -the knowledge of
tribal governments as it relates
to resource development.”
Educated at the University
of Montana, Sansaver earned his
B.A. in history and political
science in 1957, L.L.D. in 1961,
and J.D. in 1970. From 1976 to
1977, he was U.S. C.S.C. Fellow
in the Woodrow Wilson School of
Government and Foreign Af
fairs at the University of Vir
ginia.
Sansaver, a member of the
American Indian Bar Associ-
By Cynthia Stowell
Cal’s previous churches in Med
ford, Oregon and Riverside,
California were homogenous in
their white, middle class mem
bership and the young pastor
was hungry for experiences with
other people.
Warm Springs presented it
self as an opportunity to “learn
to live with differences” and Cal
moved his family to the isolation
of the reservation. Five years
later the fusion of the family and
the community attests to the
fullness of their experience.
Warm Springs and
the
Chinns were gifts to each other.
They grew in each other’s pre
sence.
Greeted with new concepts
of space, time and culture, the
Chinns found themselves shed
ding some of their- German and
Chinese upbringing. At the same
time certain of their values were
reconfirmed. In Warm Springs it
was easy to be direct, to laugh
and tease, to feel part of an
extended family.
Always aware and appreci
ative of the differences between
themselves and the community,
the Chinns were in their own
words “sojourners” on the res
ervation. But having internaliz
ed some of the values of pace
an d in fo rm ality , the Chinns a re
bound to appear a bit odd at
tirhes in their new environment
of hurried sophistication.
In fact the Chinns’ ability to
adapt was the way they were
able to give to Warm Springs. As
pgstor, Cal brought a relaxed
and youthful feeling to
the
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Indian Affairs Head Names
Trust Resources Specialist
ation, has served as legal rights
consultant to the National Tribal
Chairmen’s Association (1971-
1974), Montana Intertribal Poli
cy Board, and the Native Ameri
can Natural Resource Develop
ment Policy Board, and the
Native American Natural Re
source Development Federation
of the Northern Great Plains
Tribes (1974-1976).
Sansaver, who is married
and has three children, is in
cluded in the 1978-79 Who’s Who
in America series on Who’s Who
in the West (16 edition).
T ribal Council
Agenda
June 19
June
June
June
June
Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. 10:00 a.m. - IHS Annual Report
2. 2:00 p.m. - Robbins Law & Order Implementation
Progress Report
20
Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1.10:00 a.m. - Progress Report-Rereg Dam, Jerry Dibble
2. Warm Springs-Kah-Nee-Ta Water System, Satish Puri
21
Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m. - BPA Agreement
2. 2:00 p.m. - Committee Reports
26
Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
I. 10:00 a.m. -O ED P Approval
Revenue Sharing Budget Approval
Amended BOR Plan
26-28 NCAI Mid-year Conference
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